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Excellent must-have logging software, but has a few outages
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog offers very powerful observability for your applications and has many built in integrations with existing apps and services. The graphs are powerful and tagging feature on graphs are extremely useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Datadog has outages than are a result of delayed ingestion. When the data in delayed false alerts begin to fire and and cause our company to pull the cord and hault deploys until they are back online.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're using datadog to log important transaction and to get automatic alerts of any system issue.
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Functional monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
A lot of features that are able to work out of a box, you just need to install agents and you are in. You can find much more special APIs on marketplace to extend basic functionality. Good analytics platform allows to find bottlenecks in your infrastructure and fix at proactive basis instead of reaction on incident. Does not requires additional resources on your infrastructure as Datadog is provided as a service. The only really working Docker container monitoring solution we were able to find
What do you dislike about the product?
Installation and configuration can be painful for non-experienced users. Not very clear reporting capabilities. Most solution requires additional customization to be suitable for your needs. Not very straightforward pricing policy often makes users confusing about budget planning for Datadog
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring and analysis of IT infrastructure bot in cloud and on-premises
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Painful in setup, but incredible after go-live
Flexible monitoring for your solutions
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog allows monitoring of everything you need without deploying additional hardware or utilizing storage in your datacenter. Most of your possible needs are covered by API marketplace, where you can find lots of solutions for different use cases. You have access to both current state of resources and history of this state, so you can analyze your issues in retrospective manner to find out what was going on that time. Monitoring of both availability and performance of your services by utilizing performance counters, log analytics and alerting on specific events. Great email and communications tools integration for notification purposes, allows to monitor your systems proactively and find possible issues before actual impact for your resources.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complex APIs settings to get desired result. No off-line solutions and tools, cloud residence is cool and modern approach, but some systems can not be exposed to public internet because of security concerns, and local proxies can affect the speed of data transfer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring of cloud deployments
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Even wide range of use cases will not cover all your needs, sometimes you willmhave to find another solution.
Cloud monitoring for AWS
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog is very stable and has a lot of preconfigured solutions for AWS services. Very flexible configuration options, very good support and always the lates documentation available for users.
What do you dislike about the product?
Datadog is very hard for new users, even great work of support team, does not makes your first steps easy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring for AWS based servers and tools
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don`t expect that you will go-live with Datadog in couple of weeks
Monitoring for AWS
What do you like best about the product?
Fully cloud system, no new virtual machines, just install agent and server is under monitoring
What do you dislike about the product?
A lot of complex scripting required to get what you need, takes a lot of time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
monitoring AWS EC2 instances
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Maybe the best monitoring for Amazon Web Services
Monitoring tool for your workloads
What do you like best about the product?
Resides in Cloud, you don`t need to add anything to your datacenter
Windows, Linux OS minitoring
SQL Server monitoring
Windows, Linux OS minitoring
SQL Server monitoring
What do you dislike about the product?
Complex configuration and not very good customization
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring IT infrastructure
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good tool but you may need to spend some time to start working with it
Good nut complex solution for monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Integration with a lot of products and services, AWS monitoring is good enough
What do you dislike about the product?
Monitoring of Azure resources is weak, all solutions requires agent deployment, so for SaaS/PaaS services you need to deploy additional VM just for agent
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly used for AWS resources monitoring
Recommendations to others considering the product:
DataDog will work for you if you are using on-primise or AWS based resources. For Azure you should consider another solution
Easy and flexible
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy and quick to set up. And very flexible on how to interpret, and massage, the incoming metrics.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up the various views can be a little less than intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring of relevant metrics from multiples applications. Can aggregate or receive already aggregated data.
Excellent server and application monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Datadog’s integrated solution for monitoring applications, services, and servers makes it easy to spot and troubleshoot problems early.
What do you dislike about the product?
The setup and configuration of Dashboards and Monitors could be easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Datadog for application and server monitoring. It has helped reduce downtime, spot problems early, and aid in troubleshooting solutions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Datadog is an excellent monitoring tool. However, be prepared to spend some things me setting up and configuring alerts and dashboards.
Good Monitoring and timeseries aggerator and viewer tool
What do you like best about the product?
Monitoring based on thresholds, moving averages, anomalies detection. Also basic server integration works "from the box". Also product moves forward all the time with new integrations, and features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Disk space integration isn't working completely as expected. also per process monitor needs more love. Didn't try APM yet since my current stack isn't supported
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No need to setup multiple monitoring => graphing + monitoring => alerting pipelines and integrations with various tools, everything works from the box
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't hesitate to add multiple integrations, search the integration screens and add "everything" you have. even if you don't have specific value now in a specific integration you might have a specific corralation of history needed in the future. Also use the API to add your specific metrics and KPI
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